Loktak Lake is the largest freshwater lake in North -East
India is famous for the
phumdis (heterogeneous mass of vegetation, soil, and organic matters at various stages of decomposition) floating over it. Keibul Lamjao the only floating national park in the world floats over it.It is located near
Moirang in
Manipur state, India. The
etymology of
Loktak is
Lok = "stream" and
tak = "the end". The
Keibul Lamjao National Park, which is the last natural refuge of the endangered
sangai or Manipur brow-antlered deer (
Cervus eldi eldi), one of three subspecies of
Eld's deer, covering an area of , is situated in the southeastern shores of this lake and is the largest of all the phumdis in the lake.